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Employees
With their motivation, knowledge and experience, our employees are a central resource for the
sustainability of our company. We strive to strengthen this potential with training, skill upgrading,
and personnel development and marketing programs and through our ideas management. At all
sites, ThyssenKrupp Stainless and its subsidiaries are regarded as reliable employers offering secure
jobs and apprenticeships. ThyssenKrupp Stainless also strengthens the regions in which it operates
through active involvement in social initiatives.
Innovations
Innovations create the conditions for future business success. The R&D activities of ThyssenKrupp
Stainless are therefore aimed at constantly improving our products and offering better value for
money. Since all activities are centered on the customer, development work is linked to marketing
requirements from a very early stage. In the same way, product development goes hand-in-hand with
process development, because when new products are introduced, new manufacturing technologies
have to be mastered. To estimate the success of sustainable innovations early on, it is essential to
be close to the market, i.e. to have a deep understanding of customers’ requirements and thorough
knowledge of the competition. After development tasks have been identified, they are implemented at
the Stainless group’s centers of excellence. Work involving forward-looking themes and outstanding
customer segments is carried out in cross-company cooperative projects with other companies of
ThyssenKrupp AG. Research institutes and universities and in some cases other steel companies from
all over the world are also naturally involved in the development process.
Environmental protection –
as pictured here in the USA –
is a key priority.
The catalytic waste-air purification plant at
ThyssenKrupp Nirosta in Krefeld.